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Johannes Hoppe
July 2nd, 2010, 11:24 PM
Hi everybody.

I got a little problem upgrading my ubuntu-nas with some storage.

I wanted to add a new harddrive to my lvm but I stuck before getting to this point.
I want my harddisc to be encrypted before adding it to the lvm.

I tried the following:

# sudo cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sdb1 -y

WARNING!
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This will overwrite data on /dev/sdb1 irrevocably.

Are you sure? (Type uppercase yes): yes


... and nothing happens. dmsetup ls returns nothing.

Did I miss something?
I'm glad for any hint because I'm already running out of disk space.

frostschutz
July 2nd, 2010, 11:40 PM
you typed a lower case yes when you were supposed to type an upper case YES